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I love Copilot, I find it essential these days, but if it's going to significantly impact my productivity it's got to be 2x faster. The autocompete is scary goo
by dmix 3y ago
I love Copilot, I find it essential these days, but if it's going to significantly impact my productivity it's got to be 2x faster. The autocompete is scary good at predicting what was in my head, sometimes before I figure it out, but often it trails behind my own speed.
But anyway, the future is exciting.
- konschubert 3y agoYou must either have god-like typing speed or a really slow Internet connection ;)
- dmix 3y agoYou might be right for small stuff, but I’ve done extensive refactoring with it and anything beyond a single line completion takes noticeable time gaps.
- daemonologist 3y agoThere was a Show HN a few days ago [0] from a service promising ~3x faster copilot-style autocomplete. I can confirm that it is extremely fast (sometimes too fast - I use ctrl+right arrow a lot to navigate, which with most completion services isn't a problem because I'll have moved the cursor before a completion comes back, but with supermaven I've been accidentally accepting the completion instead). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473773
- marginalia_nu 3y agoI think its most of all extremely situational. For repetive simple tasks, you can produce code at probably something like 50x the rate, but for anything nontrivial it's at best useless and more likely a distracting nuisance. So the speedup is likely a function of what you are doing. Application logic, high. Lower level stuff, low.